auschwitz - birkenau camp map
Key for the chart belonw
- Transit Camp: Jews were imprisoned in transit camps before being sent on to a concentration camp or deported to one of the six Nazi extermination camps in Poland.
- Annihilation Camps: Execution Camp
- Holding Center:Jews with foreign passports were kept there to be exchanged for German nationals imprisoned abroad,
- Labor Camps: Forced Labor camps, prisoners were forced to world long hours with little to food.
Major Concentration Camps
Camp Name: ¦ Location: ¦ Camp Type: ¦ Lifespan of Camp:
- Auschwitz-Birkenau ¦ Poland ¦ Annihilation/Labor ¦ April 1940 - January 1945
- Belzec ¦ Poland ¦ Annihilation ¦ March 1942 - June 1943
- Bergen-Belsen ¦ Germany ¦ Holding Center ¦ April 1943 - April 1945
- Buchenwald ¦ Germany ¦ Labor ¦ July 1937 - April 1945
- Chelmno ¦ Poland ¦ Annihilation ¦ April 1943 - January 1945
- Dachau ¦ Germany ¦ Labor ¦ March 1933 - April 1945
- Dora - Mittelbau ¦ Germany ¦ Labor ¦ September 1943 - April 1945
- Flossenburg ¦ Germany ¦ Labor ¦ May 1938 - April 1945
- Gross-Rosen ¦ Poland ¦ Labor ¦ August 1940 - February 1945
- Janowska ¦ Ukraine ¦ Annihilation/Labor ¦ September 1941 - November 1943
- Kaiserwal ¦ Latvia ¦ Labor ¦ March 1943 - September 1944
- Majdanek ¦ Poland ¦ Annihilation ¦ July 1941 - July 1944
- Mauthausen ¦ Austria ¦ Labor ¦ August 1938 - May 1945
- Natzweiler - Struthof ¦ France ¦ Labor ¦ May 1941 - September 1944
- Neuengamme ¦ Germany ¦ Labor ¦ June 1940 - May 1945
- Oranienburg ¦ Germany ¦ Holding Center ¦ March 1933 - March 1935
- Plaszow ¦ Poland ¦ Labor ¦ December 1942 - January 1945
- Ravensbruck ¦ Germany ¦ Labor ¦ May 1939 - April 1945
- Sachsenhausen ¦ Germany ¦ Labor ¦ July 1936 - April 1945
- Sobibor ¦ Poland ¦ Annihilation ¦ May 1942 - October 1943
- Stutthof ¦ Poland ¦ Labor ¦ September 1939 - May 1945
- Terezin ¦ Czech Repub. ¦ Holding Center/Transit ¦ November 1941 - May 1945
- Treblinka ¦ Poland ¦ Labor ¦ July 1942 -November 1943
- Westerbork ¦ Netherlands ¦ Transit ¦ October 1939 - April 1945